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Scriptures Everywhere
by The Institute for Signifying Scriptures
What are scriptures? What is the work people make scriptures do? In this podcast, we come together monthly as a learning community, and we reflect on the relationship between scriptures and particularly persistent themes in the world around us.
Episodes
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Sources, Systems, and Confidence: Election and the Manufacture of Scriptures Everywhere
In this month's episode of Scriptures Everywhere, Arthur F. Carter, Jr. is joined by Jeremy L. Williams (Brite Divinity School) and Jessica Lynn Stewart (Emory University) to ask what functions as scripture in this US electoral season, and what systems and institutions create, mediate, and...
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Election and Chosenness
For the Fall 2026 season, we explore how scriptures, textual and otherwise, inform the meaning of election and its sociopolitical practices. In this first episode, Richard Newton, Nick Pumphrey, and Arthur Carter take up election as a sign of choice and chosenness. Prompted by R. S.…
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Citizenship and Scripturalizing Anti-Blackness in the Americas
This was the third and final session of the Spring 2026 season for the Institute for Signifying Scriptures' podcast, Scriptures Everywhere. We concluded our conversation about Cruelty as Citizenship by Cristina Beltrán. The participants reflected on why Latina/o/e/x people both complicate and...
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Scriptural Pleasures: On Cruelty as Citizenship
In this episode, we move from Stephen Best's None Like Us (2018) to a kind of flip side of diasporic belonging, the violent practices that constitute citizenship. We focus our discussion on Cristina Beltrán's Cruelty as Citizenship (2020) as we consider how the pleasures of cruelty are...
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3.1 None Like Us: Diasporic Desires and Demystifying Scriptures
In this first episode of our spring 2026 season, we speak live from the Institute for Signifying Scriptures Annual Meeting in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. We discuss the introduction to Stephen Best's None Like Us: Blackness, Belonging, Aesthetic Life (Duke, 2018) with a focus on how scriptures make...
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On Finishing a Book: Memory, Loss, and the Future
In our final episode of the fall 2025 season, we discuss the role of memory, of how and why we try to forge a sacred past and communal memory, how gender matters to the dynamics of Barracoon as a site of memory, and what it might mean to find messier ground. We look ahead to our meeting in person...
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Do you understand? Rethinking the grounds of scriptures
In this episode, we discuss different forms of knowing and understanding, and how Hurston makes Kossula into scripture even as his stories depict for us strategies for navigating distinct, and sometimes conflicting, scriptural worlds. We particularly examine the language of understanding, and the...
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Barracoon as Scriptural Locus
In this second conversation about scriptures, memory, and Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon, we discuss the title of the book and what it tells us about the politics and emphases of scripturalizing practices. We also consider facets of Hurston's and Kossula's language that point us towards…
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Scripturalizing Kossola/Cudjo Lewis: Memory, Naming, and Making the Text of Barracoon
In this first episode of our fall 2025 season on memory, we gathered to discuss Zora Neale Hurston's Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo", which was written almost 100 years ago but only published in 2018. We consider how its recent publication represents a form of scripturalizing...
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Reading Marronage: Reflecting on the Present and the Future of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures
In this conversation, first recorded in the fall of 2023, Dr. Arthur Carter, Dr. Rachel Beckley aka Rachel Schwaller, and Dr. Richard Newton discuss how the Institute for Signifying Scriptures currently works as a site of intellectual marronage. What does marronage mean for intellectual life?…
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Reading Scriptures: Reflecting on the Formation of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures after 20 yearsThe Institute for Signifying Scriptures
In this conversation, first recorded in the fall of 2023, Dr. Lalruatkima, Dr. Robin Owens, and Dr. Katrina Van Heest discuss the early years of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures in the 2000s. What is the ISS? What were the questions about scriptures that were examined in its first decade?
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Reading Darkness: Reflecting on the African Americans and the Bible Conference After 25 Years
In this conversation, first recorded in the fall of 2023, Dr. Tat-siong Benny Liew speaks with Dr. Grey Gundaker and Dr. Velma Love about the African Americans and the Bible conference after 25 years. Why did this conference matter in 1999? What are its legacies for the study of the Bible,...
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ISS@20: Signifying on Scriptures
Recorded in 2023, our inaugural episode comes from HTI's Open Plaza Talks podcast. Jacqueline M. Hidalgo, professor of theology and religious studies at the University of San Diego, talks to fellow scholar Vincent L. Wimbush, Founding Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures (ISS)…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
What are scriptures? What is the work people make scriptures do? In this podcast, we come together monthly as a learning community, and we reflect on the relationship between scriptures and particularly persistent themes in the world around us.
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The Institute for Signifying Scriptures
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What are scriptures? What is the work people make scriptures do? In this podcast, we come together monthly as a learning community, and we reflect on the relationship between scriptures and particularly persistent themes in the world around us.
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